Process Based Mission Assurance (PBMA) Knowledge Management System (KMS)

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PBMA-KMS Mission Statement

Provide quick and easy access to critical Safety & Mission Assurance data to support program managers and S&MA professionals across all NASA programs and projects. Enable mission success knowledge management through:
•	Key knowledge access (the right information, in the right place, at the right time)
•	Knowledge capture (both explicit (documented) and tacit (corporate/tribal))
•	Knowledge sharing & reuse
•	Work groups and collaboration

OSMA Safety Message

CONTOUR: An Unstable Foundation

No one knows for certain why the signal from the Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft disappeared on August 15, 2002. CONTOUR was a Discovery Program mission that was left almost entirely in the hands of NASA contractors and academic partners. It was a mission lost because of poor communication, misguided assumptions, and models that were not faithful to reality. The project team had no experience with the Solid Rocket Motor they used, and they relied on the SRM manufacturer and a consultant for expertise. The team also vested much in the strong success record of the particular model they used, but previous designs did not match CONTOUR's specifications. In this study of CONTOUR, look for ways to consider if your project is leaning on insufficient supports or depending on past performance.

Bryan O'Connor

Chief, Safety and Mission Assurance

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Announcements
Sunday Morning Outages for ESWG and KMS The NASA Safety Center's Knowledge Management Systems Office (KMSO) would like to announce regularly scheduled maintenance times for the PBMA Infrastructure! As our infrastructure grows, it is imperative that we stay on top of upgrades, updates and general maintenance that provide our customers with the latest and most secure and reliable product. These regularly scheduled maintenance windows will be every Sunday from 0800 to 1200 Eastern Standard Time starting November 8, 2009. Users should expect that hosted applications may not be accessible during these times. However, we are sensitive to our customer's needs, please let us know if there are certain times or weekends that these regularly scheduled windows would hamper productivity. Those applications affected by this maintenance window include: Enhanced Security Work Groups (ESWG) Web Site Safety and Mission Assurance Requirements Tracking System (SMARTS) Web Site Flight Test Safety Database (FTSDB) Web Site NASA Safety Center (NSC) Web Site Process Based Mission Assurance (PBMA) Web Site It is still the KMSO's intention to post notice at least 10 days prior to any major scheduled activity. Emergency maintenance activities, activities in which the system's security or health is at stake, which must take place outside of the regularly scheduled maintenance windows, will be posted as soon as possible. Please direct any questions to the ESWG Help Desk at eswg@arescorporation.com. Thank you for your support of the NASA Safety Center.

Announcements

Sunday Morning Outages for ESWG and KMS

The NASA Safety Center's Knowledge Management Systems Office (KMSO) would like to announce regularly scheduled maintenance times for the PBMA Infrastructure! As our infrastructure grows, it is imperative that we stay on top of upgrades, updates and general maintenance that provide our customers with the latest and most secure and reliable product. These regularly scheduled maintenance windows will be every Sunday from 0800 to 1200 Eastern Standard Time starting November 8, 2009. Users should expect that hosted applications may not be accessible during these times. However, we are sensitive to our customer's needs, please let us know if there are certain times or weekends that these regularly scheduled windows would hamper productivity.

Those applications affected by this maintenance window include:

Enhanced Security Work Groups (ESWG) Web Site
Safety and Mission Assurance Requirements Tracking System (SMARTS) Web Site
Flight Test Safety Database (FTSDB) Web Site
NASA Safety Center (NSC) Web Site
Process Based Mission Assurance (PBMA) Web Site

It is still the KMSO's intention to post notice at least 10 days prior to any major scheduled activity. Emergency maintenance activities, activities in which the system's security or health is at stake, which must take place outside of the regularly scheduled maintenance windows, will be posted as soon as possible.

Please direct any questions to the ESWG Help Desk at eswg@arescorporation.com.

Thank you for your support of the NASA Safety Center.

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"Awareness is Key to Controlling Process Creep"

Ron Dittemore
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